Build 2013

At Build, we'll share updates and talk about what's next for Windows, Windows Server, Windows Azure, Visual Studio, and more. Build is the path to creating and implementing your great ideas, and then differentiating them in the market. Join us for three days of immersivepresentations delivered by the engineers behind our products and services, while networking with thousands of other developers getting the first look at what's next.

TFS is much more than just version control, but in this session Mario will explain the choice of source control workflows available to teams using the Team Foundation Service / Team Foundation Server 2013 and discuss the strengths and benefits of each. You will see and learn how each method works and...

Whether you are logging for the purpose of diagnostics or monitoring, it requires proper, well-designed instrumentation and a sound strategy. The new Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB) offers a smarter way of logging by keeping the structure of the events when writing log messages to multiple...

With Visual Studio 2013 it just gets better when your IDE is connected. New roaming support, notifications and a new Visual Studio Updates experience means you get fixes and features sooner. Come see demonstrations that show off the many new productivity improvements, how Visual Studio takes understanding...

In this session we will walk you through the step-by-step process of building rich Windows Store applications with adaptive streaming powered by Windows Azure Media Services. You will learn how to use the Player Framework and SDKs to create engaging experiences. You will also discover how to monetize...

Learn common patterns that will help you build cloud services that seamlessly at scale using Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Cloud Services. This session will cover topics such as multi-tiered deployment patterns, high availability, data access, and parallel processing while leveraging the best of...

In normal software development, programmers create code that, given a certain input, produces a desired output. Machine learning techniques promise to create that code automatically, from samples of input/output pairs. Along with a brief review of ML concepts, this presentation will showcase an example...

Beautiful high-density displays are coming to Windows, and Windows 8.1 is ready for them—but what about your apps? This talk takes a deep dive into how Windows 8.1 scales different classes of desktop apps, and how the user can control system scaling behavior. You’ll learn how to write a new class of...